Istria Italiana Quotes

#1. It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

W. H. Auden

#2. Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.

Eddie Redmayne

#3. I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous).

Harvey Pekar

#4. The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Tom Coburn

#5. Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

Janis Joplin

#6. Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Calvin Coolidge

#7. I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

Brooklyn Sudano

#8. In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.

John C. Lennox

#9. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

#10. Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#11. Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.

Lisa Powell

#12. I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

A.S. Byatt

#13. Those who despair of life are not long for it.

Elizabeth Janeway